Every once in awhile someone will ask “Hey Mavis, it doesn’t look like you are buying very much food. What are you feeding your family? Rocks? We want pictures. Oh, and can you post a weekly menu plan too?”

The thing is, I don’t do a weekly menu plan. Which is weird because I have total OCD and you would think anyone with OCD would have a menu plan. Right?

Maybe I don’t like commitment, maybe I’m lazy, or maybe I just don’t like to be bound to a piece of paper telling me what to make on any given day of the week because like most of you, we are a busy family with kids in sports, vacations on the calendar and work deadlines.

For me, gardening is a full time hobby, and I strive to feed my family as many healthy, minimally processed foods as I can, but I am human. Sometimes I’m just to tired to make dinner and crawl under the covers and go to bed. Or lock myself in the bathroom and take a two hour bath so I can read the latest book I’ve ordered off Amazon. {FYI I’m reading the Bucolic Plague right now}. In that case, then its a MYOD night {make your own dinner}.

Other times I’ll toss something in the crock pot at noon and forget about dinner until my husband walks through he door and says “What’s the deal? Are you going to feed us tonight or what?”

Then there are the days when I spend a good 6 hours cooking 8 different things to eat throughout the week. So although there is always something to eat when it come’s to dinner time, it’s just not written down or planned out.

So even though I didn’t write everything down, here are some of the meals we ate {that I remembered to photograph} over the last 2 weeks.

Waffles and Eggs – We eat this combo for both breakfast and dinner.

Oatmeal with brown sugar and milk. I purchased 50 pounds of oats for $19 back in January and we still have at least 35 pounds left.

Eggs. Eggs. Eggs. When you have a flock of 15 backyard chickens, you are bound to eat eggs at least once a day. In some shape or form.

Raisin bran muffins, or any kind of muffin in general is pretty awesome if you ask me. Save yourself some time and make a double or triple batch and freeze them.Then you won’t have to make them as often.

Rhubarb walnut muffins.

Bagels and cream cheese. Yes please! I typically purchase bagels from our local bakery outlet for a buck a bag.

Tuna Casserole – My husband LOVES this recipe!

Southwest chicken chili – Does anyone want the recipe? Let me know and I’ll share it.

BBQ chicken – That would be chicken + 1 bottle of BBQ sauce. 😉

 

While I was away, the Handsome Husband made dinner. Beans and weenies. Go.Fight.Win.

He also made weenies and apple slices. I’m so disappointed I missed it.

Corn plus 9 pieces of chicken. What the? Do all these people weigh like 100 pounds?

Spaghetti. Ahhh now this is something we eat about once a week {or more}. I typically like to make a double batch and refrigerate the rest because spaghetti makes a great after school snack.

Asian noodle salad with bok choy. The best freakin’ stuff on earth.

Butter glazed radishes.

Sugar snap peas with garlic.

Radish Coleslaw. Or is it cole slaw? Hmm

Fruit salad thanks to Mr. Produce Guy.

The best chocolate chip cookies on the planet. Want the recipe?

Lime Jell-O. I have a boatload of this stuff leftover from my extreme couponing days and I”m not going to toss it. Every once in awhile I’ll make jello and pour it into serving dishes and place in the refrigerator. The kids pretty much always flip out when they spot it and it’s gone in about 10 seconds.

Clearly this is not everything we ate, but I think we are pretty normal.

How about YOU? Do you make a weekly or dare I say MONTHLY menu plan? Are you able to stick with it, or do you live on the edge like me and just make what ever you can think of.

Mavis wants to know.